Cathy Wood Named Inaugural Vice Dean for Finance and Administration at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Johns Hopkins Medicine has announced that Cathy Wood has been named the inaugural vice dean for finance and administration at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior vice president at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this new leadership role, Wood will manage the school’s overall financial performance and share oversight of critical administrative functions, including human resources, information technology and department administration in the school of medicine. 

Gottlieb Memorial Named Among Best Nursing Homes in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report

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For the third consecutive year, Loyola Medicine’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital was named to U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Nursing Homes in Illinois. Gottlieb was recognized for excellence in short-term rehabilitation which provides patients who had a recent accident or hospital stay with skilled nursing services for a few weeks or months.

Argonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science

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With its Aurora exascale supercomputer, Argonne National Laboratory is providing researchers with a powerful tool to accelerate discoveries across many fields, including biology, chemistry and AI for science.

Professor Discusses Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in Arkansas

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January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and Dr. Tusty ten Bensel, a professor of criminal justice and associate dean at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is highlighting her work to address human trafficking in Arkansas. As a member of the Arkansas Human Trafficking Council, she plays a vital role in shaping statewide efforts to combat this issue.

Hawkin Dynamics and Kansas University’s Jayhawk Performance Partner to Educate and Shape the Future with Fun, Form, Function, and Data

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Today, Hawkin Dynamics, an innovative, venture-backed pioneer in the sports and physical rehabilitation technology sector, announced a partnership with Kansas University’s Jayhawk Performance youth strength and conditioning research program, housed within the Well-Fit Center and aligned with the Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory, a member of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.

Novel Lab-on-Chip Platform Promises to Expedite Cancer Diagnoses

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In Physics of Fluids, researchers propose a novel system that uses standing surface acoustic waves to separate circulating tumor cells from red blood cells with unprecedented precision and efficiency. The platform integrates advanced computational modeling, experimental analysis, and artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze complex acoustofluidic phenomena.

Investigación muestra que el nuevo tratamiento puede retrasar la progresión del cáncer en pacientes con mieloma múltiple latente de alto riesgo

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Un nuevo tratamiento está demostrando ser prometedor para las personas con mieloma múltiple latente (SMM, por sus siglas en inglés) de alto riesgo. Esta afección precancerosa puede progresar a un mieloma múltiple activo, un tipo de cáncer de la sangre. El SMM de alto riesgo tiene una mayor probabilidad de progresión.

AACN’s Foundation for Academic Nursing Announces 2025 Future Nurse Leader Scholarship Award Recipients

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The Foundation for Academic Nursing, the philanthropic arm of AACN announces the latest graduate students to receive the Deborah E. Trautman Future Nurse Leader Scholarship. With funding provided by Liaison International, AACN’s partner in NursingCAS, the scholarship recipients include Catherine Harpst, a PhD student from University of Arizona, and Sintya Sintya, a DNP student from Loma Linda University.

Social Network, Social Functioning Associated with Longer Stays in Alcohol Treatment

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When seeking treatment for alcohol use disorder, how a person is functioning in society strongly influences how long they will stay in inpatient treatment. According to a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, people who are dissatisfied in their primary social role—at work or school, for example—and people with a strong social network stay in treatment longer, giving them more opportunities for therapeutic intervention.

Researchers testing antibody to treat drug-resistant bacteria

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West Virginia University microbiologists have identified an antibody that can kill one of the most drug-resistant bacteria. Now, supported by a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, they want to determine whether it can be combined with other antibiotics to produce a potent treatment against infection.

Pesquisa mostra que novo tratamento pode atrasar a progressão do câncer em pacientes com mieloma múltiplo latente de alto risco

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Um novo tratamento está se mostrando promissor para pessoas com mieloma múltiplo latente (SMM, sigla em inglês) de alto risco. Essa condição pré-cancerosa pode progredir para um mieloma múltiplo ativo, um tipo de câncer no sangue. O SMM de alto risco apresenta uma maior probabilidade de progressão.

Could fecal microbiota transplantation help patients heal after stem cell transplantation?

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A new study published in Nature Communications shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood cancers.

Lantheus to Acquire Evergreen Theragnostics for Upfront Payment of $250 Million to Drive Strategic Evolution into Fully Integrated Radiopharmaceutical Leader

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Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (“Lantheus” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LNTH), the leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company committed to enabling clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Evergreen Theragnostics, Inc. (“Evergreen”), in an all-cash transaction consisting of an upfront payment of $250 million and up to an additional $752.5 million in potential milestone payments.

أظهرت الأبحاث أن علاجًا جديدًا يمكنه تأخير تقدّم المرض لدى مرضى الورم النقوي المتعدد الكامن مرتفع الخطورة

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روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا — يُظهر علاج جديد أملًا واعدًا لمرضى الورم النقوي المتعدد الكامن مرتفع الخطورة (SMM). يمكن أن تتطور هذه الحالة السابقة للتسرطن وتتحول إلى ورم نقوي متعدد نشط، وهو نوع من سرطانات الدم. الورم النقوي المتعدد الكامن مرتفع الخطورة أكثر عرضة لتقدّم المرض.

‘It just seems that they don’t act like men’: The influence of gender role stereotypes on women’s entrepreneurial innovation activities

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Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore how gender role stereotypes influence women entrepreneurs in their innovation activities. To examine how women perceive and respond to stereotypes that deem them less capable of initiating innovation processes of creative…

Matchmakers or chaperones? How venture capital investors facilitate startups’ corporate venture capital partnership formation through aligning and disciplining

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Abstract Building upon the recent extension of resource dependence theory, this study examines how venture capital (VC) investors provide social defenses for startups by playing the role of matchmakers through the trust-based aligning effect and the role of chaperones through…

New CWRU study targets suicide risk among LGBTQ+ youth in Cleveland’s child welfare, juvenile justice systems

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Youth in juvenile detention centers face suicide rates significantly higher than their peers, driven by isolation, untreated mental health conditions and systemic barriers to care, according to the U.S. Office of Justice Programs. But for LGBTQ+ youth involved in child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the outcomes are even worse.

Study reveals biomarker for high risk of metastasis

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A team led by UT Southwestern scientists has discovered a mechanism that promotes metastasis in pancreatic, breast, and potentially other cancers along with a new druggable therapeutic target to block it. The findings, published in Science Signaling, represent an important lead in developing new drugs to prevent tumors from spreading, the cause of death among most patients with cancer.

Weight-Loss Surgery Lowers Risk of Developing Complications of Liver Disease in Patients with Cirrhosis and Obesity

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A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver complications compared with patients who received medical therapy alone. The results were published in Nature Medicine journal.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Adds Transformative Gene Therapy and Expands to 10 Treatments, Becoming the Largest Provider of Pediatric Cell and Gene Therapies on the West Coast

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), a national leader in advanced pediatric medical care and innovative cell and gene therapy research and treatment, announced today the addition of its 10th cell and gene therapy treatment, establishing CHLA as the pediatric provider offering the most FDA-approved, state-of-the-art cell and gene therapy treatments on the West Coast.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Selected as a U.S. Site for Neuralink Clinical Trial

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The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine have been selected to become the second U.S.-based site for Neuralink’s PRIME Study, an investigational medical device clinical trial for Neuralink’s ground-breaking brain-computer interface.